Many of the area’s best male track athletes were in mid-season form Thursday at the Mullen-Leavitt Track Invitational, but The Dalles High School displayed true dominance with nine first-place ribbons in a sweep on the Wahtonka campus in The Dalles.

Photo by Mark Gibson

THE DALLES’ Lio Tunai gets set for a shotput toss. Tunai had a distance of 52-feet-7 inches to secure first place in the Mullen-Leavitt track and field competition in The Dalles. The Tribe boys and girls swept the field with top honors. File photo

Tunai had a toss of 52-feet-7 inches in shotput, and the former state placer added a 136-00 for first in the discus.

Johnson ended up tied for first with a height of 11-0 in the pole vault, and he was part of the 4x400-meter relay team along with Kohltfarber, Nerdin and Mark Dunagan that claimed first place with a time of 3:56.80.

Nerdin was head and shoulders above the field in the triple jump with a distance of 39-02.5 and he kicked in a 16.45 in the 110-meter hurdles.

Luke McLean powered for first in the 3,000-meters in 10:49.29, Kohltfarber ran away for top prizes in the 1,500-meters in 4:42.25 and he never looked back in his try at 800-meters where he stopped the watch in 2:17.68.

Sherman had two firsts and a second in three events as part of 76.5 points for third place.

The 4x100-meter relay team of Blake Evans, Maverick Winslow, Brett Evans and Nick Coleman rallied for gold in a time of 47.35.

Isaiah Coles went for 18-8.5 for first place in the long jump, and Blake Evans claimed second place in the 200-meters with a marker set at 24.79.

The South Wasco County Redsides held serve with a first and three seconds to rack up 49 points, with Loreto Morelli taking first place in the 400-meters with a time of 54.79.

In the same event, Colton Nannini added a silver with a 57.22, Ellis Rager tallied second place in the javelin at 149-06, and Morelli place second in the triple jump where he landed in 38-7.

The Dufur boys had a few top-5 outcomes for 26 points and a tie for eighth place, but former state qualifier, Austin Olson had the best marks of the squad with a second-place in the shotput with a distance of 45-01.5.

The Dalles hits the track again with a meet at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1 at Kennison Field in Hermiston.

Dufur sets the stage in the Columbia River Invite in Boardman with an event slated for 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 5.